[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v4 6/6] selftests: drv-net: extend so_txtime with hw offload

Willem de Bruijn <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Aug 2026 19:26:03 -0400
Newsgroups org.osuosl.intel-wired-lan,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Willem de Bruijn <[email protected]>

Add two pacing hardware offload variants

1. one that uses FQ to safely offload when within bounds.
2. one that uses pfifo_fast and thus forwards all packets.

Verify that the packets are paced in hardware with new flag '-H'.

Also increase rcvtimeout significantly to reduce flakiness. Especially
for the new beyond_hw_horizon test, which is close to the 100ms limit.
But update recv_verify_empty to take MSG_DONTWAIT. That last empty
check must not delay each testcase by the receive timeout.

Hardware pacing offload can complete packets out of order. So the
reverse_order test is expected to pass with pfifo_fast too.

Do not test ETF, which does not change its dequeue behavior based on
pacing_offload_horizon.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <[email protected]>

---

Changes
  v3 -> v4
    - replace ethtool with rtnetlink APIs
    - expect_fail: correctly handle negative test pfifofast beyond_hw_horizon,
      also when KSFT_MACHINE_SLOW suppresses timing errors
    - commit-msg: clarify that rcvtimeout increase is also needed for
      beyond_hw_horizon test
    - define the horizon (50ms) once, rather than three times
    - leave cfg.require_ipver in place
  v2 -> v3
    - remove drivers/net/settings timeout change: superseded by recent commit
    - add reverse_order comment
  v1 -> v2
    - re-raise NlError from e (patchwork pylint)
    - simplify expect_pass test (patchwork pylint)
---
 .../testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.c |  4 +-
 .../selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.py        | 75 ++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.c b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.c
index 951312e67b66..9028f9e5a411 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.c
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ static void do_recv_verify_empty(int fdr)
 	char rbuf[1];
 	int ret;
 
-	ret = recv(fdr, rbuf, sizeof(rbuf), 0);
+	ret = recv(fdr, rbuf, sizeof(rbuf), MSG_DONTWAIT);
 	if (ret != -1 || errno != EAGAIN)
 		error(1, 0, "recv: not empty as expected (%d, %d)", ret, errno);
 }
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ static int setup_tx(struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t alen)
 
 static int setup_rx(struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t alen)
 {
-	struct timeval tv = { .tv_usec = 100 * 1000 };
+	struct timeval tv = { .tv_usec = 600 * 1000 };
 	int fd;
 
 	fd = socket(addr->sa_family, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.py b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.py
index adf6c848d6d8..24a686eda562 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.py
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/so_txtime.py
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ import time
 from lib.py import ksft_exit, ksft_run, ksft_variants
 from lib.py import KsftNamedVariant, KsftSkipEx
 from lib.py import NetDrvEpEnv, bkg, cmd, defer, tc
+from lib.py import RtnlFamily, NlError
 
+_HW_OFFLOAD_HORIZON_MS = 50
 
 def test_so_txtime(cfg, clockid, ipver, args_tx, args_rx, expect_success):
     """Main function. Run so_txtime as sender and receiver."""
@@ -32,10 +34,39 @@ def test_so_txtime(cfg, clockid, ipver, args_tx, args_rx, expect_success):
     expect_fail = not expect_success
     if slow_machine:
         expect_success = False
+        expect_fail = None
 
     with bkg(cmd_rx, host=cfg.remote, fail=expect_success,
              expect_fail=expect_fail, exit_wait=True):
-        cmd(cmd_tx)
+        cmd(cmd_tx, fail=expect_success)
+
+
+def _dev_setup_pacing_offload(cfg):
+    """Configure pacing-offload-horizon."""
+    rtnl = RtnlFamily()
+
+    try:
+        link = rtnl.getlink({'ifi-index': cfg.ifindex})
+    except NlError as e:
+        raise KsftSkipEx('getlink not supported by device') from e
+
+    if 'pacing-offload-horizon' not in link or \
+       'max-pacing-offload-horizon' not in link:
+        raise KsftSkipEx('pacing offload horizon not supported by device')
+
+    horizon = _HW_OFFLOAD_HORIZON_MS * 1000_000
+    if link['max-pacing-offload-horizon'] < horizon:
+        raise KsftSkipEx('pacing offload max horizon too small')
+
+    cur_horizon = link['pacing-offload-horizon']
+    rtnl.setlink({
+        'ifi-index': cfg.ifindex,
+        'pacing-offload-horizon': horizon,
+    })
+    defer(rtnl.setlink, {
+        'ifi-index': cfg.ifindex,
+        'pacing-offload-horizon': cur_horizon
+    })
 
 
 def _qdisc_setup(ifname, qdisc, optargs=""):
@@ -56,6 +87,7 @@ def _test_variants_fq():
             ["one_pkt", "a,10", "a,10"],
             ["in_order", "a,10,b,20", "a,10,b,20"],
             ["reverse_order", "a,20,b,10", "b,10,a,20"],
+            ["beyond_hw_horizon", "a,70", "a,70"],
         ]:
             name = f"v{ipver}_{testcase[0]}"
             yield KsftNamedVariant(name, ipver, testcase[1], testcase[2])
@@ -69,6 +101,39 @@ def test_so_txtime_fq_mono(cfg, ipver, args_tx, args_rx):
     test_so_txtime(cfg, "mono", ipver, args_tx, args_rx, True)
 
 
+@ksft_variants(_test_variants_fq())
+def test_so_txtime_fq_mono_hw(cfg, ipver, args_tx, args_rx):
+    """Run all variants of monotonic fq tests, with offload horizon."""
+    cfg.require_ipver(ipver)
+    cfg.require_nsim(nsim_test=False)
+
+    _dev_setup_pacing_offload(cfg)
+    try:
+        _qdisc_setup(cfg.ifname, "fq", f"offload_horizon {_HW_OFFLOAD_HORIZON_MS}ms")
+    except Exception as e:
+        raise KsftSkipEx("netdev does not support offload. skipping") from e
+
+    # Expect all tests to use only hw pacing, except beyond_hw_horizon.
+    # Do not pass -H to that test so that with sw pacing fallback it passes.
+    hw_only = "-H" if args_tx != "a,70" else ""
+    test_so_txtime(cfg, "mono", ipver, f"{hw_only} {args_tx}", args_rx, True)
+
+
+@ksft_variants(_test_variants_fq())
+def test_so_txtime_pfifofast_mono_hw(cfg, ipver, args_tx, args_rx):
+    """Run all variants of monotonic tests, without fq pacing sw backup."""
+    cfg.require_ipver(ipver)
+    cfg.require_nsim(nsim_test=False)
+
+    _dev_setup_pacing_offload(cfg)
+    _qdisc_setup(cfg.ifname, "pfifo_fast")
+
+    # Expect all tests to pass, except beyond_hw_horizon without sw fallback.
+    # It will send immediately, failing the receiver arrival bounds check.
+    expect_pass = not args_tx == "a,70"
+    test_so_txtime(cfg, "mono", ipver, f"-H {args_tx}", args_rx, expect_pass)
+
+
 @ksft_variants(_test_variants_fq())
 def test_so_txtime_fq_tai(cfg, ipver, args_tx, args_rx):
     """Run all variants of fq tests, but pass CLOCK_TAI to test conversion."""
@@ -108,7 +173,13 @@ def main() -> None:
     """Boilerplate ksft main."""
     with NetDrvEpEnv(__file__) as cfg:
         ksft_run(
-            [test_so_txtime_fq_mono, test_so_txtime_fq_tai, test_so_txtime_etf],
+            [
+                test_so_txtime_fq_mono,
+                test_so_txtime_fq_mono_hw,
+                test_so_txtime_pfifofast_mono_hw,
+                test_so_txtime_fq_tai,
+                test_so_txtime_etf,
+            ],
             args=(cfg,),
         )
     ksft_exit()
-- 
2.55.0.679.g6767b8d81c-goog